1 Eornestlice þa se hælend akenned wæs on iudeissere beethleem on þas kynges dagen herodes. þa coman þa tungelwitegen. fram eastdæle to ierusalem
⁊he ne grette hye. Heo kende. hire frumkennede sune ⁊nemde his name hælend.
Ða wæs herodes swiðe gebolgen for þam þe he befæht wæs fram þam tungelwitegan ⁊he asende þa ⁊ofsloh ealle þa chyld þe on bethleem wæron ⁊on eallen hire gemæren fram twiwintren elde ⁊binnæn þan æfter þare tyde þe he geaxode fram þam tungelwitegen.
Soðliche þa herodes wæs forðfaren. witodliche on swefne drihtnes ængel ætywede ioseph on egypte.
Þa herodes þt geherde þa warð he gedrefeð ⁊eal ierosolimewære mid him.
Ða sægden hyo him. on iudeissere bethleem. Witodlice þus ys awriten. þurh þanne witegan.
Herodes þa cleopede on sunderspræce þa tungelwitegan ⁊befran hyo georne hwanne se steorre heom ateowede.
On herode dagen iudea cyninges wæs sum sacerd on namen zacharias of abian tune ⁊his wif wæs of aarones dohtren ⁊hire name wæs elisabeth.
for þan to dayg eow is hælend akenned. se is drihten crist on dauiðes ceastre.
⁊hyt wæs geworðen þa þa ængles to heofene ferden. Þa heordan heom betweonen spræcen ⁊cwæðen. Vton faren to bethleem ⁊geseon þæt word þe geworðen ys. þæt drihten us atywede.
Hu ne cwæð þæt gewrit. þæt crist cymð. of dauiðes cynna ⁊of bethleem chestre þær þær dauid wæs.